{"id":37681,"date":"2023-04-10T14:56:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T21:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=37681"},"modified":"2023-04-10T14:56:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T21:56:04","slug":"shallow-m6-0-earthquake-hits-bismarck-sea-papua-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/shallow-m6-0-earthquake-hits-bismarck-sea-papua-new-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"Shallow M6.0 earthquake hits Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>A strong and shallow earthquake registered by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us6000k376\/executive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USGS<\/a>&nbsp;as M6.0 hit Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea at 01:05 UTC on April 10, 2023. The agency is reporting a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles).&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.emsc-csem.org\/Earthquake\/earthquake.php?id=1247993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EMSC<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting M5.7 at a depth of 40 km (25 miles).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The epicenter was located 224.6 km (139.5 miles) WSW of Kavieng and 260.1 km (161.6 miles) NNW of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 000 people are estimated to have felt light shaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no tsunami threat from this earthquake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The USGS issued a Green alert for shaking-related fatalities and economic losses. There is a low likelihood of casualties and damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, the population in this region resides in structures that are a mix of vulnerable and earthquake-resistant construction. The predominant vulnerable building types are informal (metal, timber, GI etc.) and unreinforced brick masonry construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent earthquakes in this area have caused secondary hazards such as landslides and liquefaction that might have contributed to losses.The quake was preceded by M5.8 at 23:41 UTC on April 9, M4.9 at 00:26 UTC on April 10 and followed by M5.1 at 01:09 UTC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strong and shallow earthquake registered by the&nbsp;USGS&nbsp;as M6.0 hit Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea at 01:05 UTC on April 10, 2023. The agency is reporting a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles).&nbsp;EMSC&nbsp;is reporting M5.7 at a depth of 40 km (25 miles). The epicenter was located 224.6 km (139.5 miles) WSW of Kavieng and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":37682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[244],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/EA.jpg?fit=615%2C517&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37683,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37681\/revisions\/37683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}